Features of the apple variety Uslada

Description of the variety

The Uslada tree is not a tall tree; in an adult state it reaches 3 meters, sometimes it grows a little higher. The crown of a young apple tree is round, stretches with age and turns into an oval one. Fruiting begins in the 4th or 5th year, and increases with each subsequent year. An adult tree yields up to 80 kg of apples, which hold firmly to the cuttings, so they must be picked from the tree, not from under it.

"Delight" is a self-infertile variety, in order to get fruit, you need to plant other varieties nearby for cross-pollination. "President", "Bogatyr", "Orlik", "Grushovka", "Bolotovskoe" are perfect. Next to such neighbors, "Delight" will bear beautiful yellowish-green fruits with a bright red blush. Their taste is dessert, and the aroma is raspberry - it is impossible to pass by in the bazaar or in the middle of the garden. They begin to enjoy them in the middle of summer, still green with a clearly sour taste, and in the fall they are filled with aromatic sweetness, filled with a bright blush. For long-term storage, they are removed slightly unripe.

The tree is not considered too large or spreading, but in the garden it is better to leave 4 or even 5 meters between individual trees.

Advantages and disadvantages

The description of a variety always starts with its benefits. "Delight" perfectly tolerates winter cold, practically does not undergo diseases, its special resistance to scab allows it to be grown in areas with rainy summers. But fallen leaves still need to be removed from the garden, so as not to support the growth of pathogenic bacteria, and not to give shelter to rodents.

Abundant yields, early fruiting, good keeping quality of fruits, easy, easy care allow you to grow apples not only for yourself, but even for commercial purposes.

The description of the shortcomings usually comes down to one thing - in the absence of pruning, the apple tree gives fruits that are uneven in size. It is easy to deal with this by including in the obligatory care the annual competent pruning of the tree, especially since it is not too high.

Apple trees of this variety are widely grown in the central regions, it is easy to find its description and reviews. Anyone who planted Uslada at his dacha will certainly recommend it as a very grateful apple tree that does not require painstaking work or special care.

Planting and leaving

Planting apple trees can be done in spring, when the ground has completely thawed out, usually this time falls on the end of April, or in autumn - in September or early October, so that the tree has time to take root before the cold weather.

It is better to prepare the pit in a week, or even more - it needs to be dug to a depth of 70 cm, compost (or humus), superphosphate, potash and nitrogen fertilizers should be laid, mixed with the ground from the bottom of the pit and left there, covering it from possible precipitation. After 7 or 8 days, the seedling is lowered into the hole and the roots are covered so that they remain straightened, it is better to plant together.Then the tree is watered, after a week, abundant watering is repeated again, the ground around the trunk is mulched. It is advisable to drive in a peg and tie a seedling to it for stability for the first time.

"Delight" prefers to grow in black soil, but it is so persistent and unassuming that it takes root on any soil.

Proper care is regular watering, loosening the soil around the trunk, and top dressing.

With the beginning of autumn, fertilizers need to be applied annually, then the harvest will be consistently rich, and the fruits are invariably tasty. For each square meter of the trunk circle, at least 5 kg of cow dung or 1 kg of poultry manure is due. If you have your own compost, then you can fertilize it with it, only it will have to be taken up to 8 kg per 1 sq. m. In the spring, during lush flowering, many gardeners dilute complex mineral fertilizers with water and add their solution to the water for irrigation. Such feed water is not poured onto the ground from above, but is poured into prepared holes 30 cm deep or a small ditch around the trunk.

In early spring, when the tree has not yet woken up, sap flow has not begun, you need to carefully prune it. Pruning has as its goal the destruction of tops, thinning the crown sufficiently so that no branch blocks the other from the sun. As the tree ages, pruning will also be rejuvenating. Places of cuts are covered with garden pitch.

Breeders took care of resistance to damage by pests, fungi, bacterial diseases, but many gardeners, not wanting to risk it, still carry out preventive treatment of trees with Bordeaux liquid in early spring, while the buds have not yet blossomed.

In winter, apple trees may not suffer from frost, but from hares. To exclude this possibility, tree trunks are covered with spruce branches, foil, netting or smeared with a mixture of fish oil and naphthalene, this smell can scare off even the most hungry hare.

Fruit of Delight

The fruits of "Uslada" are of medium size, they ripen in August - September, usually weigh 100–130 g, sometimes they can reach 170 g if the trees grow on black soil.

Round yellowish-green apples with a red blush, reaching full ripeness, turn red, through a thin (but strong) peel white dots are visible. They have a pleasant dessert taste, sweet with sourness, and a raspberry aroma. The high content of pectins, sugars and vitamin C (twice as much as in Antonovka) determines the use of apples of this variety in baby and dietary food. Moreover, they are good not only fresh, but also after culinary processing, and they do not lose their benefits even after conservation.

If you harvest the crop slightly unripe, and then store it in a cool room, then these wonderful apples can be enjoyed even in the middle of January.

The crown of the tree is heavily overgrown, and this greatly affects the size of the fruit. If you do not engage in annual pruning of branches, then the fruits will be born uneven, many small ones will appear. This is especially bad for those gardeners who grow apples for sale. But this is easy to deal with - you just need to limit the growth of the crown, mercilessly cut out the tops and shorten the branches that tend to shade the neighbors. Then fragrant tasty apples with fine-grained white, and in some places slightly reddish flesh, will be almost the same size.

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